On Monday, August 6/19, 2024, the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Saviour on Mount Tabor was celebrated by the Patriarchate. On this feast, the whole Church, especially the Church of Jerusalem, remembers that our Lord Jesus Christ, before His passion, took His pre-eminent disciples Peter and James and John “to the high mountain and…

Yesterday marked the 63rd anniversary of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew’s ordination into the priesthood. On August 13, 1961, the young Dimitrios Archontonis, who would later become Bartholomew, received the first of the major orders of clergy in the Orthodox Church, being ordained as a deacon at the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin…

On Sunday, 11 August 2024, His Grace Bishop Kyriakos of Melbourne presided over the Matins Service and Divine Liturgy at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Dormition of Our Lady in the suburb of Bell Park, Gelong, Victoria.   His Grace was joined in the liturgy by Father George Vryonis, who with the blessing of…

On Saturday, July 28 / August 10, 2024, the commemoration of Saint John the New Hosevite from Romania was celebrated in the Patriarchate. This feast was celebrated in the Monastery of his repentance, of Saint George and John the Hosevites. He came here from the Neamts Monastery in Romania. He lived since the middle of…

On Friday, July 27/August 9, 2024, the memory of the Holy Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon was celebrated by the Patriarchate. On this feast, the Church remembers that Saint Panteleimon was formerly called Pantoleon. A physician by profession, he healed a blind man in the name of Christ, thus becoming famous and martyred in the…

On Sunday afternoon, 11 August, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew officiated at the service of the Supplicatory Canon to the Most Holy Theotokos at the Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos, ‘Exi Marmara’. Present also and joined in prayer were Their Eminences, Metropolitan Gabriel of Nea Ionia and Philadelphia and Metropolitan Maximos of Selyvria,…

On Sunday, 11 August, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia liturgised at the Church of the Resurrection of Christ, in the suburb of Kogarah in Sydney, where he also performed the ordination of the Parish Deacon Fr. Socrates Dokos as a Presbyter, who is an Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the Graduate School of…

The United Nations, aiming to highlight the challenges and issues faced by young people and to promote their active participation in society, has designated August 12th of each year as International Youth Day. For the Orthodox Church and, specifically, for the Holy Archdiocese of Australia, caring for the needs of the younger generation has consistently…

On 4th August 2024, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain had the honour of visiting H.S. PROMETHEUS a General Support Ship of the Greek Navy on its summer training cruise supporting Frigate H.S. KANARIS. Also present were His Excellency Yannis Tsaousis, Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic in the UK, Commander representatives of…